A 21-year-old Oak Lawn woman was charged Tuesday night with reckless homicide and several other violations stemming from a fatal hit-and-run accident that occurred shortly after midnight Saturday in the 19100 block of Oak Park Avenue, after a Jason Aldean concert at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre...

A 25-year-old Chicago man died Saturday morning after being hit by a vehicle in the parking lot of a Chicago Heights strip club, and the Cook County medical examiner's office on Sunday ruled his death a homicide.

A 34-year-old Wilmington man was charged with child grooming, a Class 4 felony, after an investigation prompted by Will County Sheriff's deputies finding him alone with two juvenile girls in a hotel room, officials said.

Maurice Dailey, the final defendant accused of participating in a controversial grave-digging scheme at historic Burr Oak Cemetery pled guilty Tuesday to desecrating and removing human remains and removal of gravestones or markers, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s...

An employee of St. Coletta's school in Tinley Park has been charged with aggravated battery, accused of beating an adult client with severe intellectual disabilities, Tinley Park Police said Wednesday.

Rane Atieh is grateful that an attempted "crash-and-grab" early Thursday at his store in Chicago's Beverly community failed because, according to police, the stolen minivan used by the would-be thieves blocked their entry after they rammed it into the building.

Oak Forest police say someone stole a van loaded with thousands of dollars of equipment belonging to a touring blues musician in the early hours of Saturday morning, and the theft may be related to a smash and grab at a Tinley Park Best Buy.

A 42-year-old man has been ordered to perform community service work, after admitting he had an illegal, loaded handgun inside his car last winter near the campus of North Central College in Naperville.

Five days after she learned that her brother had been shot to death, Kimberly Gonzalez was in an interview room at the Will County Sheriff's Department, trying to get her son to confess to her brother's murder.

When asked how he would assign blame in the murders of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins, Adam Landerman told Joliet detectives he bore 25 percent of the blame and that another man, Joshua Miner, was 75 percent responsible.

Adam Landerman was a scared teen influenced by an older ringleader the night two Joliet men were strangled in 2013, defense attorneys said Wednesday during opening statements in Landerman's murder trial.

Defense attorneys for a Frankfort man charged with murder argued Thursday that prosecutors did not present enough evidence to tie their client to the murder of a 36-year-old woman who was found in the trunk of her car two days after she disappeared in 2009.

A Calumet City teen has been charged with DUI causing death and reckless homicide with a motor vehicle in a crash early Saturday that killed two people, one a high school student who was to graduate Wednesday, the other an original employee of Metra who was on his way to work, officials said.

Dolton police are pursuing "some preliminary leads" in Tuesday night's shooting death of a 21-year-old Chicago man, who was lying in a parkway for more than an hour before being found by his family, Mayor Riley Rogers said.

A Joliet man was found after a five-hour police search Tuesday hiding in the attic of a senior housing complex under construction in Mokena that he and another man are accused of burglarizing, police said.

A Harvey man who police said was operating the largest residential-based marijuana cultivation center in the south suburb's history has been charged with several drug-related offenses, according to officials.

A lawsuit alleging that the Cook County Sheriff's Office improperly removed the clothing from the body of a young woman and took roadside nude photographs after an accident is scheduled for trial next Monday, court records show.

Terrence Nicks kept a solemn face when he asked Judge Joan O'Brien to consider his personal history, shortly before she sentenced him at the Bridgeview Courthouse on Friday to three years in prison for removal and desecration of human remains, as well as removal of more than 10 gravestones and...

Oak Forest police are questioning an 18-year-old Posen man in connection with thousands of dollars in damage this month to athletic fields at various parks and schools caused by a truck being driven over the grounds, according to police.

A Country Club Hills resident and a former Lockport resident are among about a dozen Chicago-area residents facing federal charges for alleged federal income tax crimes in various separate cases filed recently, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago.

Four men were charged with mob action and criminal damage to property after one used a pipe to hit a car occupied by a 21-year-old man and his teenage girlfriend in a road rage incident in the 7600 block of 191st Street, Tinley Park police said.

A Mokena physician faces criminal charges after sending disturbing letters to his ex-wife's divorce attorney and defacing the headstone on the grave of the attorney's deceased daughter, according to Will County sheriff's police.

A Blue Island man has been charged with operating an unlicensed security firm, and two of his employees were arrested for carrying weapons without certification to be armed security guards, according to a press release from the Cook County Sheriff's Office.